Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Rescue of Assam girl blows the lid off trafficking of 'molki' women

New Delhi, 07 Jan 2015: She was called out of her home in Assam by a friend to have fun and watch a movie. As soon as she inhaled something and fell unconscious her sad journey began, narrates a 20-year-old girl who was sold out in Rs 52,000 to three men in Sonipat district of Haryana some day in the end of this past December. They promised to marry her and kept her in their captivity until she managed to escape on 2nd January.

Recalling her ordeal on 6th January before the press here at the office of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) which rescued her, Aziza Khatoon (name changed) said she fled from the captors at a home in Karad village in Sonipat. She had to spend a cold night inside a deep jungle in Bahopur village under Israna tehseel of the same district. She was spotted by a villager in the morning and was brought to the village.

The Assamese girl was unable to speak in Hindi but she gave two phone numbers to the villagers. They called her parents in Assam who sought help from SDPI which immediately sent a team to Karad village where she had been given shelter at the home of one noble man Balbir Singh. She was brought to Delhi. Meanwhile, her relatives reached here and SDPI officials handed her over to them.

“There are many girls who have fallen prey to human trafficking net and destroyed their life. If we had not helped this girl on time, we don’t know what would have happened with her, said Azim Naved, Delhi state secretary of SDPI who had led the rescue team of his organization.